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  2. Synecdoche - Wikipedia

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    A common example of synecdoche: using the term boots to mean "soldiers", as in the phrase "boots on the ground". Synecdoche (/ s ɪ ˈ n ɛ k d ə k i / sih-NEK-də-kee) [1] is a type of metonymy; it is a figure of speech that uses a term for a part of something to refer to the whole (pars pro toto), or vice versa (totum pro parte).

  3. Conversion (word formation) - Wikipedia

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    For example, the noun green in golf (referring to a putting-green) is derived ultimately from the adjective green. Conversions from adjectives to nouns and vice versa are both very common and unnotable in English; much more remarked upon is the creation of a verb by converting a noun or other word (for example, the adjective clean becomes the ...

  4. Transducer - Wikipedia

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    A transducer is a device that converts energy from one form to another. Usually a transducer converts a signal in one form of energy to a signal in another. [1] Transducers are often employed at the boundaries of automation, measurement, and control systems, where electrical signals are converted to and from other physical quantities (energy, force, torque, light, motion, position, etc.).

  5. List of Latin phrases (V) - Wikipedia

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    for example: Literally, "for the sake of a word". Verbum Dei: Word of God: See religious text. Verbum Domini lucerna pedibus nostris: The word of the Lord [is] a light for our feet: Motto of the University of Groningen: verbum Domini manet in aeternum (VDMA) the word of the Lord endures forever: Motto of the Lutheran Reformation: verb. sap ...

  6. Contraposition - Wikipedia

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    For example, if one wishes to ... One statement is the contrapositive of the other only when its antecedent is the negated consequent of the other, and vice versa ...

  7. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    Synecdoche: referring to a part by its whole or vice versa. Synonymia: use of two or more synonyms in the same clause or sentence. Tautology: redundancy due to superfluous qualification; saying the same thing twice. Tmesis: insertions of content within a compound word. Tricolon diminuens: combination of three elements, each decreasing in size.

  8. Perfect and imperfect rhymes - Wikipedia

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    In most instances, either the vowel segments are different while the consonants are identical, or vice versa. This type of rhyme is also called approximate rhyme, inexact rhyme, imperfect rhyme (in contrast to perfect rhyme), off rhyme, analyzed rhyme, suspended rhyme, or sprung rhyme. [6] [7] [8] [9]

  9. Vice Versa - Wikipedia

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    Vice Versa (play), a play by Edward Rose, based on the novel; Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life, a book by Marjorie Garber; Éditions Vice-Versa, a magazine at the centre of Aubry v Éditions Vice-Versa Inc, a leading Supreme Court of Canada case about Quebec privacy rights